NOVELETTS OF COMPUTER GAMES

o In 2003, a 14-year old Romanian boy collapsed and was hospitalized because he had been playing Counter Strike for nine days in a row. o On June 17, 1980 Atari's 'Asteroids' and 'Lunar Lander' were the first two video games to ever be registered in the Copy right office. o In 1968, International Master David Levy made a $3,000 bet with McCarthy a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University that no chess computer in the world would beat him. He won his bet. o The first all-computer chess championship was held in New York in 1970, and was won by CHESS 3.0 - a program written by Slate, Atkin and Gorlen at Northwestern University, Illinois. o StarCraft is the first computer game to be played in space. It was sent on shuttle mission STS-96 back in 1999 by Daniel T. Barry, a mission specialist.

Sundaram Raghuvanshi CS II Year